Loading…

Film noir : hard-boiled modernity and the cultures of globalization /

The term "film noir" still conjures images of a uniquely American malaise: hard-boiled detectives, fatal women, and the shadowy hells of urban life. But from its beginnings, film noir has been an international phenomenon, and its stylistic icons have migrated across the complex geo-politic...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Fay, Jennifer (Author), Nieland, Justus (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, [2010]
Series:Routledge film guidebooks.
Subjects:
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface : down these mean streets, again
  • Film noir and the culture of internationalism
  • Critical debates : genre, gender, race
  • Film noir style and the arts of dying
  • Fragments of one international noir history